| Type: | suburb |
| Tingira Heights | |
| City: | Greater Newcastle |
| State: | nsw |
| Alternative Location Map: | Australia Hunter Central Coast |
| Pop: | 2,043 |
| Postcode: | 2290 |
| Area: | 4.2 |
| Dist1: | 16 |
| Dir1: | SW |
| Location1: | Newcastle |
| Dist2: | 6 |
| Dir2: | SSW |
| Location2: | Charlestown |
| Lga: | City of Lake Macquarie |
| Parish: | Kahibah |
| Stategov: | Charlestown |
| Fedgov: | Hunter |
| Near-N: | Mount Hutton |
| Near-Ne: | Windale |
| Near-E: | Jewells |
| Near-Se: | Belmont North |
| Near-S: | Floraville |
| Near-Sw: | Croudace Bay |
| Near-W: | Eleebana |
| Near-Nw: | Eleebana |
| Est: | 1960s |
Tingira Heights is a suburb of City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, 16km (10miles) south-west of Newcastle's central business district on the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. It was developed in the 1960s.
The Awabakal are the traditional people of this area.[1]
Prior to 1965, the suburb was called Violet Town. A ship named after the Indigenous tribe Tingira (on the NSW/QLD border) was Australia's first naval training vessel in 1912 and was decommissioned in 1941. In 1965 the H.M.A.S Tingira Old Boys Association asked to have a town named after the ship, and the name was adopted by the Violet Town Progress Association. Tingara is an alternative spelling.[2]